Lead Product Manager in Brighton

Overview

🚕 Are you keen to work somewhere that’s stimulating and friendly, with loads of opportunities for growth and plenty of freedom to make a real impact? This could be the place for you! Trusted by the world\’s leading platforms – Uber, Uber Eats, Amazon, Bolt, Ola, FreeNow – and pioneering the future of autonomous vehicle insurance, INSHUR is redefining the future of mobility.

We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to join us at INSHUR and own our Global Platform. We’re based in sunny Brighton ☀️ (sea 🌊, chips 🍟, and seagulls 🕊️ included), and our company embraces a hybrid working model, allowing you to thrive in both collaborative office settings and the comfort of your own home 🏠. You’ll have the opportunity to work remotely while also connecting with your colleagues at our Brighton office at least 2-4 times a month, fostering a dynamic and supportive environment. You’ll be working on re-inventing insurance in exciting markets across multiple territories including the UK 🇬🇧, US 🇺🇸, and the Netherlands 🇳🇱, with plans to expand into new European countries. Supported by (and reporting to) the Principal Product Manager, you\’ll be joining a friendly team who believe in building and evolving foundational systems that power global products, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and fit for long-term growth across all markets.

We value high performance and care deeply about making INSHUR a place where everyone is building something special, that we can all be proud of, while enjoying the ride.

What you\’ll do

As a Lead Product Manager (Platform) you will own INSHUR’s core insurance platform with a building, evolving, innovating and compounding the foundational systems that power all products, partners, and markets across the US and EU.

• Platform Ownership: Own the core insurance platform, encompassing Quote, Rating, Billing, and Policy services, while ensuring the system remains scalable, reliable, and compliant.
• Strategic Roadmapping: Lead the platform roadmap with a long-term view, balancing immediate delivery needs with foundational investments that unlock speed and flexibility for the entire business.
• Platform Expansion: Leading the expansion of INSHUR globally across new territories 🇺🇸, driving our capabilities to support new regions and ensuring compliance and standardisation of platform functionality/capability’s.
• Driving Innovation: Identifying and developing tooling and capabilities internally for INSHUR stakeholders that drives efficiency and scalability of our business as we scale
• Cross-Domain Orchestration: Translate complex, global requirements into clear, sequenced initiatives that provide a seamless experience across products and geographies.
• Engineering Partnership: Partner deeply with Engineering to shape system design and APIs, enabling teams to ship with clarity and confidence.
• Stakeholder Interface: Act as the primary link between the platform and wider business units like Finance, Risk, and Operations to manage competing priorities and reduce operational friction.

Essentials To Thrive In The Role

• Platform Product ownership: Significant experience owning backend, platform, or infrastructure-adjacent products in high-throughput environments.
• High-Growth Startup Experience: Proven ability to build, ship, and scale platform products in high growth, fast-changing startup environments, operating with ambiguity, limited resources, and a strong bias toward execution and ownership
• Strong Technical Literacy: Ability to engage confidently with engineers, data, finance and insurance teams on process, architectural decisions, data models, business/technical trade-offs etc.
• Navigating Regulated Environments: Experience delivering high-impact products within insurance, fintech, payments, or financial services.
• Systems-Thinking Mindset: Strong judgment and the ability to anticipate second-order effects while managing platform risk.
• High Ownership Mentality: A drive to take responsibility for long-term outcomes and build institutional continuity over time.

Additional Skills That Could Set You Apart

• Global Platform Scaling: Experience supporting multi-country or multi-market platforms.
• Data and Event Intuition: Strong experience working closely with analytics or event-driven systems.
• Operational Tooling Expertise: Experience owning internal tools or operational platforms that improve internal productivity.

You’ll Love It Here If You

• 💡 Thrive navigating ambiguity and finding clarity in uncertain situations.
• 👏 Take pride in being accountable and owning your responsibilities.
• 🚀 Enjoy in a fast-paced environment where change happens quickly.
• 🤖 Enjoy innovating with AI and other technologies to find creative solutions.
• 🧠 Are intellectually curious, constantly seeking to learn and explore new ideas.

You May Not Enjoy Working Here If

• ⏳ Prefer a more structured, slow-moving environment.
• 📝 Feel most comfortable when tasks and processes are clearly defined from the start.
• 🚫 Tend to stick strictly to your defined role and avoid contributing outside of your responsibilities.

Collaborating with AI: At INSHUR, we see AI as a powerful collaborator. We use technology to innovate, and our hiring process is no exception. For us, AI is a tool to enhance our processes and help you showcase your best self—we never use it to make the final hiring decision. We actively encourage you to use AI tools to help you shine, and you can learn more about how we collaborate with AI, and our tips for how you can too, here.

What To Expect From The Process

Screen & Intro: 30-minute video call with the Talent Team to discuss the role and your experience.

First Interview: 60-minute video call with the Principal Product Manager and People Partner to delve into the role, including technical questions and team fit

Case Study: A take-home circa 2 hours work followed by a 45-60 minute in-person interview with the Group Product Manager, and a Lead Engineer to review the case study and assess team fit.

We encourage you to ask questions about the role and the company throughout the hiring process. We believe that this is as much an opportunity for you to interview us as it is for us to interview you.

What We Offer

Competitive salary and we take into account any previous experience and location of work when agreeing on the final offer.

Benefits

We offer all our employees stock options and we will pay into your pension monthly. We\’ve also built a benefits package that invests in our people’s long-term personal and professional growth and wellbeing. Here’s a sample of what this includes:

• 🌴 30 days of holiday annually, plus bank holidays
• 🏥 Private healthcare for you and your family, including pre-existing conditions
• 💼 Life insurance at 3x your salary
• 👶 13 weeks parental leave at full pay for new parents
• 👶🏽 Workplace nursery scheme with Gogeta, allowing you to pay fees pre-tax
• 🚲 Ride to work scheme
• 💰 Workplace pension scheme to help you save for retirement
• ⏰ Flexible working hours to suit your lifestyle
• 📚 £500 annual personal training allowance plus regular learning opportunities on a variety of topics
• 💪 £40 monthly wellbeing to keep you healthy
• 📞 24/7 Employee Assistance Program, covering you and immediate family members—offering crisis support, counselling, legal advice, menopause CBT, and more

It goes without saying that we provide everyone with a laptop, monitor, top of the range kit, and any software you need.

About Us

🚕 INSHUR is on a mission to be the leader in insurance solutions for the on-demand economy. From making coverage fair and accessible for today\’s drivers, to building the insurance infrastructure for tomorrow’s autonomous vehicles, we\’re building the future of on-demand mobility.

💡Cutting edge technology & deep insurance know-how underpins our revolutionary offering for on-demand drivers, keeping premiums affordable and delivering results for partners. With a focus on embedded insurance solutions, and complementary technology integrations for digital platform providers such as Uber, Amazon, Bolt, FREENOW and OLA, we’ve been helping drivers stay on the road since 2016 through our data, technology and in-house insurance expertise.

🚀 Backed by some of the most forward thinking VC’s including Viola Growth, JVP, Munich Re, Viola Fintech, MTech Capital, Antler, and MS&AD, we have secured over $113.5 million in funding as well as the acquisition of American Business Insurance in 2023. We have exciting plans to continue growing our portfolio and product lines and expand to new territories in the future.

🌍 As a global team of around 220 people based across the US, UK, and the Netherlands, we value:

• 🤝 Generosity, inclusivity, open-mindedness, and diversity
• 🏆 Delivering great results and learning in the open
• 🎯 Freedom to make long-term, high-impact decisions
• 💙 The wellbeing of our teammates and the people around us

And… Enjoying the ride!

Equal opportunities

🌈 At INSHUR, we believe that having a diverse team where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work is key to our success. We’re passionate about creating equal opportunities and making the tech industry a better place for all and we don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability, or age.

🌍 As at Aug 2025, our team consists of 46% women, 31% from BAME or BIPOC backgrounds, and 12% LGBTQ+ 🌈. We proudly represent 30+ nationalities and span multiple generations, including Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. We’re proud to have been recognised for Diversity and Inclusion by the British Insurance Awards 🏆.

🏢 We recognise that some companies often hire people similar to the existing team—something we’ve worked hard to overcome. We follow a structured hiring process and ensure our interview teams are trained to foster inclusivity and equity.

⏰ While this position is advertised as full-time, we’re flexible on specific arrangements and happy to discuss options like part-time, job-sharing, or other flexible work setups for the right candidate.

🛠️ If you need any adjustments during the interview process, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to accommodate your needs.